Jack Pelham

Watch that man who is
Unwilling to feel foolish
Even when he is.

We have the stupidest ideas among us—promoted in tandem, yet inconsistent in principle:

I. That those who choose a life of intellectual immaturity—who shun learning, morals, self-correction, and duty—make a respectable choice, and that it is the duty of the world to cater to such people, sheltering them from consequence—

II. That those who expect others to grow up are themselves negligent in learning, morals, and self-correction, and are shunning their duty to refashion the world, and ought to be punished for it.

Is it the nature of the other species
That they go to seed before
They have taken root themselves—
That they bear young
Before maturity?

Yet it is in the nature of humankind
That they may choose
To reproduce before
They are fit for
Parenthood.

The serpent promised that they could rise above
The nature into which they had been created
By performing beneath it—

They harden themselves against the realization
That they have done wrong—
As if this were good for them,
And not self-abuse—
As if they had something better to do
Than what is right—
As if they had something better to believe
Than what is true.

It is important to him
That you know—
Along with everybody else—
That your post was “TLDR”.

Is there not a fair distinction
To be made between
Being set in one’s ways
And being set in God’s way?

On this date in 1776, America went famously on record against governmental tyranny and against the usurpation of powers not rightfully authorized. She declared that the only rightful powers of a government are those to which the people consent, and that those powers must serve toward life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There is a correlation, no doubt,
Between the popular and nasty habits
Of quoting someone without citing the source
And of lauding an idea without knowing what it means.

One can decide right now to get wisdom,
But he cannot get it all at once.

Rather, he must keep deciding it over and over.

And so it goes with a thousand other treasures, too—
The acquisition of each depending on
The ability of the person to stay the course.